In <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, on 01/18/2007
at 04:55 PM, Tom Schmidt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said:
>You are describing one of the core differences between real
>mainframes and etch-a-sketch computers -- the real McCoy use parity
>for memory
Parity is so 1950's. The real McCoy uses ECC, with logging of
single-bit failures.
Machines without any error checking don't even qualify as
etch-a-sketch; they're just junk.
--
Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz, SysProg and JOAT
ISO position; see <http://patriot.net/~shmuel/resume/brief.html>
We don't care. We don't have to care, we're Congress.
(S877: The Shut up and Eat Your spam act of 2003)
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